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To play Sgt. Jerry Wooters, member of the “Gangster Squad” police unit, Ryan Gosling took inspiration from an unlikely source: “I was admiring how Bugs Bunny was not above dressing like a lady to get out of trouble,” he said of the cartoons where Bugs dons drag to escape Elmer Fudd’s shotgun. “I thought that could be interesting: Trying to be inconspicuous and relate that idea to this as a real person.”

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